Quotes About Conviction

She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

If the single man plants himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abides, this huge world will come around to him.

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out.

Benny pushed a slow breath through his teeth. "Is it so terrible to believe in something?

Starting over is an acceptance of a past we can't change, an unrelenting conviction that the future can be different, and the stubborn wisdom to use the past to make the future what the past was not.

The world, I soon learned, held a different estimate: and I make no doubt, the world is very right in its view, yet believe also that I am not quite wrong in mine.

No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.

I shall not commit the grievous sin of losing faith in Man

That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I'm right.

Isn't an agnostic just an atheist without balls?

Speed eliminates all doubt. Am I smart enough? Will people like me? Do I really look all right in this plastic jumpsuit?

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.

He said that he was sure you would be amendable to this course of action." April paused, eyes widening, before she said indignantly, "I believe he may have lied to me!

Our priorities is our faith.

To be a Christian, you must pluck out the eye of reason.

She hadn't just drunk the Salvation Kool-Aid - she'd started to brew her own.

You need to have faith and trust, Moira.""And a little bit of pixie dust?

You've got an answer for everything... It's one of the side effects of being right all the time.

Presenting a rational argument to a person who has forsaken the use of reason is like asking a vegetarian to eat a cheeseburger.

Along with a sense of humor, my songs have to be sincere, and they have to be sung from a position of inner conviction.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!